"Helena Norberg-Hodge... doubted the current growth model in the early 1990s. She came up with the idea of localisation rather than globalization as she highlighted that the root cause of inequality is globalization. In her book Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World, she showed us how Ladakh was once a happy place before its initiation to Western ideas and material goods. From her own experience of living in Ladakh, she wrote that earlier interdependency in the community was very strong but everything changed socially, ecologically and economically after so-called ‘development’ took place there. She also wrote a book called Local is Our Future (2019) in which she strongly argued for a localized economy as an alternative to the globalized economy. In her localized model of the economy, she has advocated developing a robust, local food production and delivery system and a democratic structure that can give local farmers more power. The local producers will thus be less dependent on the ‘outside power’."